Weekend Report: Sushi Dryrun

I dressed up with a shirt and tie on Friday to meet with some customers at CMC. I wore my Christmas tie :)


^ Fongpay Dressed up with Christmas Tie.

Food this weekend ->
Stir-fried some sliced steak with onions and veggies. At first it was just going to be a whole steak with veggies, but I changed it up on the fly. I sliced the steak and re-fried it to some caramelized the onions for 20 seconds. Topped it with mixed veggies.


^ Stir-Fried Steak with Veggies.


^ Pepperoni Pizza with 2 Apple Pies.

I did a small dryrun of the sushi I was going to make for our family Christmas Feast.
I needed to test out a new type of sushi rice my parents bought. It's pretty good. I'll be using it.
I also experimented with a Chicken Nugget and Avocado roll. It tastes good, but it doesn't work well with soy sauce. I made some for Ben and Susanna to get their input too.
Also made some basic salmon rolls and salmon with avocado rolls.


^ Sushi Dryrun.

CMC Christmas Lunch

Lunch today -> CMC Christmas Lunch.
Today was the CMC Christmas Lunch. It's got the standard turkey, stuffing, peas and carrots, mash potatoes, salad, and lots of desserts.


^ CMC Christmas Lunch.

Dinner today -> Hotdogs.
I made hotdogs for dinner. I dressed them with ketchup, mustard, and wasabi mayo.


^ Hotdogs.

Useless Idol News:
Got a couple packages in the mail today. I got my AKB48 Trading Cards.


^ AKB48 Boxes.
After opening all the packs, I found I'm missing quite abit of cards for the base set and I got alot of doubles :( Atleast most of the rares were not doubles and the ones that are, were foil rares. I also got 3 box toppers (Takamina, Maeda, and Mayu), 1 Autograph card (Iwasa Misaki 10/120), and 1 Jersey Card(Abe Maria 049/400).


^ AKB48 Cards.

I was laughing so hard when I saw this video by Sasshi :) Maybe I need more sleep.

Shopping Day

I used some banked time to take today off to do some Christmas shopping. That was the original plan, but I only got 1 gift. Everything else I bought was for me... :)
Picked up a Marvel Megablocks Series 1 pack (got rare black-suit Spiderman), Alex Burrows Chase figure, and PK Subban Regular figure from Zellars.


^ Zellars Haul.


^ Transformers: Generations - Warpath and Thundercracker from Walmart.

Useless Food Question:
Susanna and I are looking for Nutchos Chocolates. I don't think they make them any more? Does anyone know where you can buy these chocolates? I looked for them at Walmart and Zellars.

Dinner today -> Sushi and Tempura.
Picked up some sushi to go from Sushi Shop in the Place d'Orleans food court. I was surprised that it was really good.


^ Sushi Shop Sushi.

Useless CMC News:
Reminder: CMC Christmas Lunch is this Thursday, Dec 08!

Useless Idol News:
AKB48 24th single "Ue kara Mariko" ("Mariko from the Top") was released today. Janken winner Shinoda Mariko is the center.


^ AKB48 24th single "Ue kara Mariko" (AKBingo! Version).

Announced today: Google+ and AKB48 partnership. Members will "hangout" live on Google+. Special events will also stream through Google+. Available in 5 languages including english.
Feel free to add me to your Google+ circles (I haven't figured out how everything works yet). So far I'm following these members:

• Kasai Tomomi Google+ page.
• Oshima Yuko Google+ page.
• Maeda Atsuko Google+ page.
• Takahashi Minami Google+ page.
• Sashihara Rino Google+ page.
• Kitahara Rie Google+ page.
  

Pineapple Overload

I've been eating alot of pineapple lately. I think it's 3 pineapples in 6 days now. I just got 2 more :) They're not on sale anymore, so I should switch back to oranges.


^ Pineapples.
FYI: I think you get more pineapple from uncut containers than pre-cut ones, because sometimes when I finish cutting them, I can't get all the pieces back into the container.

Useless Japan News:
I completely forgot I have Japanese Christmas chocolates that Gavin and Emi sent me last year. I brought them to work today to eat them. Not sure if I will share them or not... :)


^ Japanese Christmas Chocolates.

Wanted: Glass Catfish

Lunch today -> Chipwagon Fries and Cheeseburger.
I had to go to Chapters and return an overpriced book at lunchtime. I grabbed lunch from the chipwagon at Canadian Tire. I'm hooked on these fries :)


^ Chipwagon Fries and Cheeseburger.

Useless Aquarium News:
I'm looking for some Glass Catfish. If anyone sees these at a pet store, let me know.
FYI: I am NOT looking for the Malaysian Glass Catfish (from Big Al's Aquarium Services). They don't seem to be fully transparent like the basic Glass Catfish I already have.

Weekend Report -> Mushy Jambalaya

Food this weekend ->
I tried to make jambalaya from memory, as I watched it made on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives Thursday night. It didn't turn out the same, as I put abit too much water in the pot, so the rice ended up too mushy. It still tasted good, just mushy.


^ Jambalaya.
I just realized that the recipe was available online! Maybe I'll follow it next time, but it's more fun winging it.

I was looking for some McDonald's Apple Pies, but the 3 McDonald's I went to only had Triple-Berry pies. I tried a couple.


^ Triple-Berry Pie.

Useless Idol News:
Many top artists (including AKB48, Ikimonogakari, and Dream Morning Musume) performed on "Best Artist 2011" last week.


^ AKB48 & SKE48 - “Kaze wa Fuiteiru”, “Pareo wa Emerald”, “Heavy Rotation”.
Note AKB's Heavy Rotation cat cosplay outfits :)


^ AKB Cat Cosplay.

Chicken Rice

Dinner today -> Chicken Rice.
Simple and easy dinner. Made some veggies to go with it.


^ Chicken Rice.